Youth's Magazine,  3rd ser. 2 (1829), 1–3.

The Ruins of Capernaum on the Lake of Tiberias

Anon

Genre:

Extract, Travelogue; Afterword

Publications extracted:

James S Buckingham

Relevant illustrations:

eng.

Subjects:

Physical Geography, Biblical Authority


    The extract records: 'Diodorus Siculus, in his account of the marvellous properties of the Lake Asphaltes, fails not to remark the great singularity of the bitterness of its waters'.



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